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EDITED AND HOSTED BY THE GREANVILLE POST by Randy Shields Review of Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method: Washingtons Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World A crosspost with Dissident Voice, a fraternal site Prepare to read Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method in one sitting because it’s impossible to put down. The book is a summation of the US government assisting the Indonesian military in killing approximately one million civilians from October 1965 thro...

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Book Review: ‘Planet Palm’ reveals a world map stained by red oil by Ashoka Mukpo on 31 May 2021 From the Niger Delta in the 1850s to modern-day Indonesia and Honduras, Planet Palm weaves a nuanced and gripping narrative out of the history of palm oil. The book meticulously covers the colonial beginnings of the industrial palm oil trade and the fortunes made from its popularity in Europe and later, Asia. As battles rage over the ecological and labor rights track record of the palm oil indu...

Prepare to read Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method in one sitting because it’s impossible to put down. The book is a summation of the US government assisting the Indonesian military in killing approximately one million civilians from October 1965 through March 1966. While the Vietnam War got most of the headlines, in Indonesia the world’s […]

‘Undermining Faith in NATO’ Is Now Grounds For Twitter Ban, Because Certain Kinds of Politics Have Become a Religion Twitter announced bans on 373 accounts it connected to  “state-linked information operations” on Tuesday. Some of them, the company said,  “amplified narratives that were aligned with the Russian government” or  “focused on undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.” Twitter is a US-based company, and the First Amendment of the US Constitutio...

Antiwar.com Original Trump is gone; Biden is in. But America is still recognizing the coup leader in Venezuela, is silent on Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara, is continuing Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol while accepting the importance of Israel’s hold on the Golan Heights and is only cautiously correcting course on Cuba. The history of American coups and colonialism is nearly – but importantly not quite – as old as the history of America. ...

A Review of Greg Poulgrains book JFK vs. Allen Dulles Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20th centurys most terrible mass murders. It will make your hair stand on end and should ...

Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20 th century’s most terrible mass murders.  It will make your hair stand on end and should be read by anyone who cares about historical tru...

The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck and Guidebook, and a currently untitled daily journal. The latter two titles are slated for spring and fall 2022, respectively. Bevins Mounts ‘Uprising’ for Priddle For PublicAffairs, Vincent Bevins’s Uprisings. Rob McQuilkin at Massie & McQuilkin sold the nonfiction title, which, the publisher said, is “a global survey of the modern era of populist uprisings from Brazil to the Arab Spring to the unrest in Hong Kong.” Bevins’s The Jakarta Method, a...

Counterpunch Historian John Roosa’s meticulously researched Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia focuses on events leading up to and during the months of slaughter, with extensive testimony from survivor interviews which Roosa and a team of Indonesian researchers conducted over several decades. In The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, journalist Vincent Bevins shows connections between the I...